Too much nonsense to unwind. The Orwellian named ACA or Obamacare if you prefer isn’t helping people. It is making young people pay for the healthcare of older people. Making them buy insurance they might not want and calling THAT a success. If we wanted to make healthcare affordable we would untangle the bureaucratic nonsense not make more of it.
The article sells fiction as fact through out. Old people aren’t happy with Medicare. They have paid into it for a lifetime and expect to receive what they were promised. The government does its best to distort the perception of what it took and continues to take from people to pay for these things. It shows only half of the amount that people pay on their paychecks, other half is paid by the employer technically. Though if I had $10 to pay for someone to do a job and the government was going to take 15% I could only pay them $8.70.
Costs soar in health care because we have third parties that determine how we can spend our money and how much stuff should cost. That sort of system has never worked. People can spend their own money better on themselves and they are also best at determining the value that something provides. If a treatment is free we take it even with little benefit. If we have to pay the cost then we make a rational decision based on that cost. Our system prevents the later from ever happening.